1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	18 athletes from 7 countries
Competition phase	14./16. July 1900
Medalist
gold	Alfred Tysoe ( GBR )
silver	John Cregan ( USA )
bronze	David Hall ( USA )

The 800-meter race of the men at the Olympics in Paris in 1900 was on 14 and 16 July 1900 in Croix Catelan decided. The British Alfred Tysoe became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the two Americans John Cregan - silver - and David Hall - bronze.

Records

The unofficial world record was set in a race over 880  yards , which corresponds to 804.672 meters.

World record	1: 53.4 min	United States	Charles Kilpatrick	New York ( USA ), September 21, 1895
Olympic record	2: 10.0 min	Australia	Edwin Flack	Advance from Athens ( Greece ), April 6, 1896

The following records were broken or set at these Olympic Games over 800 meters :

OR

1: 59.0 min

United States

David Hall

1st preliminary, July 14th

Results

Prelims

July 14, 1900

There were three preliminary runs, from each of which two runners reached the final - highlighted in color.

Forward 1

Olympic champion Alfred Tysoe: in the run-up to second place behind his compatriot David Hall

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	David Hall	United States	1: 59.0	OR
2	Alfred Tysoe	GBR	1: 59.2	estimated
3	Howard Hayes	United States	unknown
4th	Maurice Salomez	France
5	Christian Christensen	Denmark
?	Walter Drumheller	United States
	Alex Grant	United States

Tysoe was three yards behind the winner of the heat, Hayes followed, another six yards behind. In the case of Drumheller and Grant, it is not known whether they reached the finish and in what order they arrived. Grant was also actually Canadian but started in the USA team because he studied there.
In zur Megede only the first four are listed.

Forward 2

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Henry Deloge	France	2: 00.6
2	Zoltán Speidl	Hungary	unknown
3	Justus Scrafford	United States	unknown
?	Edward Bushnell	United States
	Emilio Banfi	Italy
	Harrison Smith	United States

Deloge's lead over his two pursuers is given as three and eight yards, respectively. It is not known of the last three runners whether and in what order they reached the finish.
In the case of the Megede , the information up to third place is consistent, the German Albert Werkmüller is in fourth place . No other participants are named in this source.

Forward 3

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	John Cregan	United States	2: 03.0
2	John Bray	United States	2: 03.4	estimated
3	Harvey Lord	United States	unknown
?	Edward Mechling	United States
	Ondřej Pukl	Bohemia

Cregan's lead over his two pursuers is given as six and ten yards, respectively. It is not known of the last two runners whether and in which order they reached the finish.
At the Megede , the information provided by the first two runners is consistent; Edward Mechling is ranked third in this source. No other participants are named at zur Megede .

final

The Briton Alfred Tysoe wins the Olympic final ahead of the American John Cregan

July 16, 1900

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Alfred Tysoe	GBR	2: 01.2
2	John Cregan	United States	2: 03.0	estimated
3	David Hall	United States	unknown
4th	Henry Deloge	France
5	Zoltán Speidl	Hungary
6th	John Bray	United States

Particularly favored was the Briton Alfred Tysoe, who had run under two minutes several times during the Olympic year. His two fiercest competitors were the American John Cregan, who had also undercut the two-minute mark this season, and the French Henry Deloge, who, as a participant from the organizing club, was hoping for a good placement.

Deloge led the field for the first half of the route, with a leisurely pace of 1:05 minutes for the first 400 meters. The reason for the slow start was the participation of some runners in the 1500 meter final the day before. On lap two Tysoe and Cregan accelerated, Tysoe continued to pull away and won clearly. Cregan and Hall followed the Olympic champion by three and eight yards respectively. Hall also finally defeated the French and secured the bronze medal. Some sources even speak of Deloge's weakness and fall. The second lap was run much faster in 56 seconds.

The Dane Christian Christensen is named as the seventh finalist on the IOC side .

Web links

• SportsReference, Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's 800 meters , English, accessed July 19, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, 800m men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on 19 July 2018

literature

• Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 32
2. ↑ read, for example, at Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 31